According to the association of mayors of France, elected officials must build their construction and development projects with nearly 400,000 standards facing them. An aberration for some of these elected officials who often find themselves buried under these regulations.
Faced with the burden of standards, it has become impossible to deal with it without the help of an expert firm that many municipalities cannot afford to pay. Many of them are at their wits' end, as the president of the mayors of Provence, George Christiani, describes: "We are being held hostage by the state"